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Hi all, I was hoping you could give me some ideas on finding a leak, which I appreciate is akin to the 'how long is a piece of string' question. :) I bought a house recently and on removing some hideous woodchip wallpaper, found a dirty great hole above the kitchen window. On top of...

Thanks for the advice; to be honest I'm still split on what to do, but I'll removed one of the boards and see what's behind. With any luck I can replace it with plasterboard and get it skimmed, hopefully not at too much cost. :)

Thanks - I'll give it a try. I've got the code so I guess I could take off the front cover and see what's underneath. :) Alex

Hi all, Sorry there's not much to go on, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what type of Wickes alarm this is? I'm trying to find a manual for it... Thanks, Alex.

Hi all, I've recently bought a house and in the process of doing it up a bit, including the bathroom and kitchen. Originally it had plain textured paper but some of it had come off so the decision was made to remove it. We found the following stuff underneath... As you can see some...

Thanks for all replies, I'll have to think about my options and work something out. Whatever I go for it'll have to be cheap and cheerful I'm afraid, I just don't have the money for anything else.

Hhmmm, that I'd be happier about; £2.7k seemed pretty steep

Hi, Thanks for all the interest shown. Well, using my non-technical knowledge to explain, heh; there's a removable unit which appears to have the ignition / spark assembly in it, it's the collar that that unit actually slots into that apparently has a crack - at the top. Not sure if that...

Hi all, My Powermax 135 gas boiler has recently sprung a small, but apparently deadly leak. An engineer came out and said that a welding joint had gone and that the system would have to be replaced. Maybe not so surprising since it's 17 years old now, and though it's been serviced...